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This year at UX Australia Apogee, one of our Gold sponsors, is running a poster competition. The topic is ‘Understanding culture’ and the winner will receive a ticket to UXHK 2012 (plus flights). How cool is that! The competition is open to all attendees at the main conference. Poster topic: Understanding culture The topic of [...]
Last month, I spent many hours reading proposals for UX Australia 2011 – well over a hundred of them. The eighty-or-so proposals that weren’t selected were submitted by good people, were most likely good ideas, and may have turned out to be fabulous talks. But they had some common attributes – some were too short, some were [...]
For the last two conferences, we’ve scheduled the after-lunch timeslot with 4 x 10-minute talks (x 2 rooms x 2 days = 16 talks). They’ve been a great way to keep the after-lunch energy high and introduce interesting ideas that can be covered in a shote timeframe. This year we’ve decided to offer 10-minute talks [...]
Registration for UX Australia 2011 is now open Check out the program, and register now. Early-bird pricing is available for the first 150 tickets or until 30 June 2011, whichever comes first. Prices are: Main conference, full price: $700 ($800 after this) Main conference, full-time students: $300 Hands-on workshops, full day: $600 Hands-on workshops, half [...]
Thanks to DTDigital for joining as a silver sponsor for UX Australia 2011. It’s great to have you involved!
UX Australia is a proposal-based conference, drawing content from the community of UX professionals and related disciplines. Proposals close this Sunday – 20 March – at midnight AEST. There will be no extensions, no begging, no pleading (well there may be begging and pleading, but it won’t get your proposal in). If you’d like to [...]
We’ve just confirmed another new sponsor – PTG Global have joined as a Gold sponsor and will be sponsoring a pre-conference drinks event. Thanks to them for getting involved and for helping out with a party!
We’re very excited to welcome new silver sponsor Heathwallace – a new company in Australia’s UX market. Thanks for supporting the conference!
We’re excited to welcome Stamford Interactive as a Silver sponsor for UX Australia 2011. Thanks, and we look forward to having you involved!
Registration is now open for Service Design 2011. Service Design 2011 is a single day, single track conference, with only 100 tickets. Get in quick as they will probably go soon (as I write this, 14% of the tickets are already sold – and that’s without organisers and speakers.) Some of the program is available, [...]
We have a new sponsor for Service Design 2011 – Optimal usability (NZ) and Optimal experience (Australia). We’re excited to have them involved and looking forward to working together.
The program for UX Australia 2011 is based on submissions from our community. We are interested in proposals for the main conference, and for hands-on workshops held the days before the main conference. If you have something you’d like to share, please read the UX Australia 2011 call for proposals (this has information about what [...]
We have our first sponsor on board for Service Design 2011 – Meld Studios. We’re looking forward to working with them to create a brilliant conference.
We’re excited to announce two new UX Australia 2011 sponsors: Silver: Thoughtworks: an agile approach to building the right thing, in the right way Bronze: FatDUX: Designing valuable User eXperiences
We’re running a single day conference on service design on 3 May, in Sydney. Many details still to come (including the program). We’re not calling for proposals in the same way as we do for UX Australia, but if you do have experience in an aspect of service design that you could share, please get [...]
Today we’re very happy to announce that Symplicit is UX Australia 2011 platinum sponsor. We’re very excited about working with them again.
We’re incredibly excited to announce our first sponsors for UX Australia 2011. Thank you to all these companies for supporting the conference and getting involved. Gold sponsor: Loop 11: Test early, test often…affordably Silver sponsors: Rosenfeld Media: Short, practical, and useful books and webinars on user experience design Meld Studios: Creating meaningful interactions between people and products, [...]
We’ve finalised the dates and location for UX Australia 2011. UX Australia 2011 will be held in Sydney, 23-26 August at the Four Points by Sheraton, in Darling Harbour. We’ll be using a similar approach to the last two years – we’ll call for proposals in February, due in March, then review and announce the [...]
I promised I’d post the list of cocktails people ordered at the closing party of the conference, just as an insight into what a crowd of UX people drink when they get together. So here it is, as they appeared on the receipt… 55 x Bombay Sapphire 5x French Martini 1 x Tanqueray 3 x [...]
With two weeks to go, the conference is almost sold out, so please register soon if you want to attend. As at 5 Aug, we only have 12 tickets left. I’ll update this every day so you can put pressure on your boss [Update: The main conference is SOLD OUT. You can still sign up [...]
(UX Australia 2010 only has 300 tickets – graph updated 4 August)
At UX Australia 2009, we found ourselves with spare timeslots due to cancellations. We brainstormed what to do with them and decided to try 10-minute talks – 4 short talks in 40 minutes, directly after lunch. They were a hit! The talks were fantastic and attendees loved the pace and change of energy. So naturally, [...]
Conference registration and pricing Registration for UX Australia 2010 is now open. Check out the program, and register now. Early-bird pricing is available until 30 June 2010. Prices are: Main conference, full price: $700 Main conference, full-time students: $300 Hands-on workshops, full day: $550 Hands-on workshops, half day: $300 If you sign up (and pay) [...]
We have two new gold sponsors. Thank you to both of you for helping us create a great conference: Westpac customer experience Different
The UX Australia conference program is now available. We’re very excited about it – it has a a good mix of practical tools you can use for day-to-day work, plus talks on designing for environments other than the web and computers. We also have a great mix of Australian and international speakers, practitioners and academics. [...]
Apogee Usability Asia will be providing one UX Australia attendee with a return trip to Hong Kong for a cross-cultural (user) experience. The winner will be drawn randomly at UX Australia 2010 and everyone registered and paid by 30 June will be eligible. UX Australia conference registration opens 1 May 2010.
We’re very excited to announce three new sponsors: Five senses coffee: The finest coffee from around the world, delivered fresh to your door Meld studios: Creating meaningful interactions between people and products, systems, services, processes and spaces Maadmob: User experience consulting and training Thanks to all our sponsors – your support means a lot and [...]
We’re very excited to open the call for proposals. We assemble the conference program based on your proposals, so if you have a good idea, this is your chance to get involved. Proposals are open to everyone, and close 21 March 2010.
We’re very excited to announce three new sponsors this week: LimeChile: Tasty web apps for UX pros: GuapoVideo, WebSort, and PlainFrame FatDUX: Designing valuable User eXperiences Rosenfeld Media: Short, practical, and useful books and webinars on user experience design
Hi all, does anybody know when and where all presentation slides will be available? By the way, congrats to all the speakers, the Conference was brilliant! Cheers.